capto

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkap.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkap.to]

capto

1. first-person singular present indicative of captar

capto

1. first-person singular present indicative of captar

capto

1. first-person singular present indicative of captare

• copta

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.toː/, [ˈkäpt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.to/, [ˈkäpt̪o]

From capiō (“take, capture”) +‎ -tō. See captus.

• cattō (Late Latin)

captō (present infinitive captāre, perfect active captāvī, supine captātum); first conjugation

1. to strive to seize, catch or grasp at

   (by extension) to strive to see or hear[1]

2. (figuratively) to seek, aim at

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(See also cattō.)

• Balkan Romance: ("search, seek"; possibly via *cabtō)
  • Aromanian: caftu
  • Romanian: căuta, căta
• North Italian:
  • Lombard: catà (“catch”)
  • Friulian: cjatâ (“find”)
  • Romansch: chattar, cattar, catar, chatter
  • Venetian: catar (“find”)
    • →? Dalmatian: catur (“find”)
• Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
  • *accaptāre
  • *captiāre
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: captar
  • → Dutch: capteren
  • → French: capter
  • → Galician: captar
  • → Italian: captare
  • → Occitan: captar
  • → Portuguese: captar
  • → Spanish: captar
  • → Romanian: capta

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “captare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 318

• “capto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to try and raise a laugh: risum captare
    
  • to court popularity: auram popularem captare (Liv. 3. 33)
    

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

captō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of captus

capto

1. first-person singular present indicative of captar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkabto/ [ˈkaβ̞.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -abto
• Syllabification: cap‧to

capto

1. first-person singular present indicative of captar